Monthly Archives: October 2013

Northampton Parkrun Session three of the week saw the project attempt Northampton Parkrun in the hope of a fast flat course and two 16 minute 5k’s. Simkiss duly delivered with a strong and well paced run producing a time of 15:56, McCarthy struggled to a disappointing and demoralising 16:30 – clocking a third mile slower…

Welcome to a new feature called ‘The MMRR’, not to be confused with the vaccine made famous by the fraudulent science paper in the late 90’s, with an additional ‘R’. This feature will instead review a range of recovery drinks that McCarthy will be consuming mainly in the middle of the week, Friday probably. We…

Perhaps not so much of a ‘session’ per se, but a 16mi Long Run, the day after a track session. The well thought out physiological and psychological benefits of stacking these two sessions one day after the other were not once considered – instead it was driven by McCarthy’s audacity to have some kind of…

10 x 1k (3:15) off 90sec Arriving at the home of the most inhospitable athletics club in Rugby and Northampton we were welcomed by a padlocked track and a brisk wind down the back straight. After McCarthy had spent twenty minutes wandering the perimeter looking for a way to break in, Simkiss saw a temporary fence…

With week 3 Training having been covered by Simkiss’ report on his Majorcan Training Camp, and the weekends races being covered in individual reports, we fast forward now to Week 4 of the MCKEP 10k training towards Leeds Abbey Dash – and halfway through week 4 at that! After a tough weekend of races,…

Question: I can’t believe for one second you were a chubber – can I ask what you used to look like …? Answer: Of course you can – Interestingly, both of MCKEPs top athletes have a past history of being overweight through over-indulgence. Whilst both athletes still have the tendencies of their former fat…

The Wobbler is a (vaguely near) 10k Multi terrain race, based in the Welcombe Hills of Stratford-upon-Avon, a stones throw away from where MCKEP member Rich Simkiss grew up, and in fact the very site where Simkiss won his first trophy in a running event – the ‘Clopton Run’ as a cub-scout back in 1992…

Wirral Half Marathon – 13/10/13 This was always an odd one for McCarthy, no real target, no specific HM training under the belt, no idea of the field or the course etc. Not to mention it was the day after his 19:16 at the national road relays in Birmingham on leg one, that left the…

With Simkiss having returned from the Majorcan sun a day prior to the event, and almost certainly suffering with jet lag and struggling to come to terms with the hour time difference, it was mixed emotions at the National Road Relays for the McCarkissElite duo. Simkiss, having already thrown his toys out the pram about not…

Despite trying to keep plans under the radar, media interest and speculation has uncovered that Richard Simkiss of MCKEP has indeed travelled to Majorca to take part in a secret training camp designed specifically for the Midlands finest distinctly average athletes. A training camp so secret that it was in no way locatable, to which…